CAPITAL Tunisia
Tunisia is a country in Northern Africa that has a Mediterranean Sea coastline in the very centre of Mediterranean Africa. Tunisia lies immediately to the south of Italy and Malta. Libya borders Tunisia to the south-east, whilst Algeria lies to the west.
CURRENCY
Tunisian dinar (TND)
AREA
163,610 sq km
POPULATION
9,924,742 (end 2003)
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
Arabic (official and one of the languages of commerce), French (commerce)
RELIGION
Muslim 98%, Christian 1%, Jewish and other 1%
CLIMATE
Temperate in north with mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers; desert in south.
